Local heroin
Legal narcotics in a liberal city
THE people queuing up at the Providence Crosstown Clinic are pioneers of a sort. They are heroin addicts whose habits have resisted conventional treatment. They hope to become the first in North America to get their fixes legally as part of a treatment programme rather than just for a clinical trial. “It’s heroin that you know is good,” says one addict waiting outside, who aspires to join the queue.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Local heroin”
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